“...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.”

― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

January 16 Toronto

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

January 2 Toronto

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

— Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón”

January 6 Toronto

I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts
Wake me if you're out there

-Owl City 'Angels'

January 1 2015 Toronto

Grow back like a starfish

December 13 Toronto

“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
― Bertrand Russell

November 30 Toronto

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

November 25 Toronto

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway

November 25 Toronto

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway

November 19 Toronto

Dance like no-one is watching.......

October 31 Toronto ( physically) The moors ( mentally and spiritually) For Samhain........

The north of England is untamed. It can be subdued but it cannot be tamed. Lancashire is the wild part of the untamed.
The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter – alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like an animal pelt.
The hill itself is low and massy, flat-topped, brooding, disappeared in mists, treacherous with bogs, run through with fast-flowing streams plunging into waterfalls crashing down into unknown pools. Underfoot is the black rock that is the spine of this place.
Sheep graze. Hares stand like question marks.
There are no landmarks for the traveller. Too early or too late the mist closes in. Only a fool or one who has dark business should cross Pendle at night.

- Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

October 28 New York

“One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
― Hermann Hesse

"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
- T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

October 4 Toronto

"My definition of a free society is a society in which it is safe to be unpopular .
- Adlai Stevenson, Oct 1952 Speech, Detroit.

September 25 Nova Scotia.

“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, she's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

September 25 Nova Scotia.

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

September 25 Nova Scotia.

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

September 25 Nova Scotia.

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why'
-Kurt Vonnegut.

September 25 Nova Scotia

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
-Orson Welles

September 21 Toronto.

Mabon...Fall Equinox.

September 6 Toronto

Sunday doing what I do best.

August 31 Home, Toronto

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau

I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

March 13 Toronto

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

― Martin Buber

August 24 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Hands-on Biodiversity

"Explore the incredible variety of life on Earth and the relationships between living beings."